Business Enterprise Network Practice Pathway Group Master of Business (PGDipBus) APMG8099 Business and Organisational Strategy Assessment 4: Report Part B Semester: Semester 1, 2017 Date issued: Week 1 Due date and time: Week 13 before 8pm on Friday (9 June ‘17) Delivery: ⦁ Week 13 on Friday before 20:00 in drop box building 54 foyer. Total marks: 100 marks Weighting: 30 % of overall course mark Word limit 4000 words Submit your assignment through turnitin.com Instructions: ⦁ Complete this cover sheet and attach it to your assignment. ⦁ This is an individual assignment and must be your own work. ⦁ Collusion, copying or plagiarism may result in disciplinary action ⦁ We advise that you keep a copy of this assignment. Student Name: Student ID No: Lecturer: Dr Andries du Plessis Class time: Saturdays Student declaration: I confirm that: ⦁ This is an original assessment and is entirely my own work. ⦁ Where I have used ideas, tables, diagrams etc of other writers, I have acknowledged the source in every case. ⦁ This assignment has not previously been submitted as assessed work for any academic course. Signature of student: Date of signature: Report Format Part B Follow the following order please: ⦁ Front page (signed by the student), ⦁ Title Page, ⦁ Executive Summary, ⦁ Introduction, ⦁ Body of the Report, ⦁ Conclusion, and ⦁ Recommendations, (may include Part A with emphasis on Part B) ⦁ Appendices (not included in the word count), ⦁ Grading sheet (attach as last page of the report). Please note that the Executive Summary is a one-page summary of the principal findings of the report (Parts A & B combined with the emphasis on Part B), designed to assist the reader in judging the relevance of the report contents. Should include all of the main points of interest, and nothing else – bullet points may be used to emphasise key issues. Follow the format strictly to avoid losing marks Spiral bind part A and Part B together as one document. Mark answers clearly following the question numbers. ⦁ Resource Demands: ⦁ Identifies the resources ⦁ Identifies the range of capabilities, skills, talents, competencies, or resources you will need locally and even globally to possess if your business performance in relation to its chosen direction is to be effective. Discuss these needs in sub-categories below: ⦁ Human resources ⦁ Financial resources ⦁ Technological resources ⦁ Intangible resources and ⦁ Tangible resources. ⦁ Resource Availability: 2.1. Identifies and describes the extent to which 1.3 to 1.7 above identified resources currently available to your business or if not available how will it be obtained. 2.2. Appraising the strategic importance of the resources and capabilities you have identified ⦁ Business Goals: 3.1 Explains business goals 3.2 Expresses your approach to each of your chosen strategic issues in terms of a brief and concise goal/s that your strategy implementation process that you have found / developed for your business, will set out to pursue. ⦁ Key Tasks: ⦁ Use a series of bullet point statements to reflect the key tasks that will need to be undertaken (by who) in order to achieve each goal. ⦁ How will you bridge the gap between where your business currently is and where it wants to be in 5 years - refer to the objectives you would have? ⦁ Risk Analysis: ⦁ Explains what you understand under risk analysis ⦁ Presents an objective analysis of the likelihood and severity of risks associated with pursuit of your goal/s in 3.2 and objectives as in 4.2. ⦁ Monitoring and Evaluation: 6.1 Explains the difference between monitoring and evaluation 6.2 Describes the systems and processes you will put in place to ensure that your business’ activities and their outcomes are appropriately monitored and measured. Be specific and use relevant literature with models, theories etc in support. APMG 8099 Business Strategy Assessment 2: Report Part B GRADING SCHEDULE Student: Item Weight Mark Executive Summary 5 Resource Demands: 1.1 Identifies resources 1.2 Capabilities, skills, competencies 1.3 Human Resources 1.4 Financial resources 1.5 Technological resources 1.6 Intangible resources 1.7 Tangible resources 5 10 5 5 5 5 5 Resource Availability: 2.1 Identifies and describes resources available 2.2 Appraising strategic importance 10 5 Business Goals: 3.1 Explains business goals 3.2 Express your approach 5 5 Key Tasks: 4.1 Key tasks 4.2 Bridge the gap 5 5 Risk Analysis 5.1 What do you understand under risk analysis 3 5.2 Severity of risks 7 Monitoring and Evaluation: 6.1 Monitoring and evaluation 6.2 Systems and processes in place 3 7 Marks deducted - similar as in Part A: Overall Grade 100 Presentation ⦁ Both sections of this assignment will be marked as if it they were reports presented by you as the owner so their presentation needs to be succinct, well argued, convincing, and supported by appropriate evidence. ⦁ Both reports must be typed in 12 pt font TNR or Arial with 1.5 spacing, and properly referenced in APA style, with supporting evidence for your argument being drawn from relevant literature not older than 4 years (2012+) – 15 journal articles, 5 books, and 5 websites, in total at least 25 references using APA referencing style. ⦁ Marks will be adversely affected by poor formatting, layout, grammar, spelling, APA reference style not used correctly, not meeting the required amount of refereed references, incorrect word limit and professional impact. You may wish to consult the following for presentation tips of the report: Manalo, E., Wong-Toi, G. & Bartlett-Trafford. (2009). The business of writing; written communication skills for business students (3rd Ed.) North shore: Pearson De Luca, R. and Annals, A. (2000). Writing that Works – a Guide for Students. Auckland : Pearson Education. The web site for APA style referencing is: www.docstyles.com/apacrib.htm Notes ⦁ Marks are awarded primarily on the basis of justified positions, in which sound reasoning and strategic thinking have been clearly demonstrated. These attributes are inevitably well supported by a significant range of appropriate academic references. ⦁ Terms such as ‘discuss’, ‘evaluate’, and ‘assess’ do not mean the same as ‘identify’, ‘critique’, and ‘describe’. For example, ‘evaluate’ means that you are to consider in depth the various sides of an issue or question before offering your own judgement in terms of how that issue should be interpreted.